Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mplayer
Running under Hardy on an IBM Thinkpad T41 laptop, mplayer no longer
works at all. (Neither, it appears, does Totem.)
If I try to play a video from the shell, mplayer hangs for a while, then
pops up a window with what appears to be the first frame of the video,
and then either hangs forever or crashes shortly thereafter. Sometimes
it fails to open a window at all. Sometimes it appears to play (though
nothing displays other than black) and then dies quickly.
Totem has very similar behavior.
This worked perfectly under Gutsy.
Given that both Totem and mplayer seem similarly afflicted, I wonder if
the problem isn't actually in the x server video extension stuff or in a
library both Totem and mplayer use, but I have no real clue about how to
go about debugging this.
Here is typical output from the program, which is not terribly useful so
far as I can tell:
$ mplayer bussard.mp4
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz (Family: 6, Model: 9, Stepping: 5)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing bussard.mp4.
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
[mov] Video stream found, -vid 0
[mov] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO: [avc1] 320x240 24bpp 29.969 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window.
GNOME screensaver disabled
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: mad
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 104.0 kbit/7.37% (ratio: 13005->176400)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12
A: 0.0 V: 0.1 A-V: -0.125 ct: -0.008 11/ 11 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
[And at this point, it hung forever.]
** Affects: mplayer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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mplayer no longer works under Hardy on IBM T41
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225780
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